GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1025, 14 January 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—T-reE3 Association—Copyrljht.

AUSTRIAN MEAT FAMINE.. .(Rec. January 14,. 0.15 a.m.) Vienna, January 13; A shipment of fifteen tons of Argentine meat has been eagerly' purchased in the city at from sixpence to hmepeiice : a pound. - A SENATOR UNSEATED. / Now York, January 13. ' Senator Stephenson (Wisconsin) haa - been unseated on the grounds of bribery. He spent £20,000 in fighting thff election. ' ARMED RAILWAY GUARDS. New York, January; 12. Union Pacific trains are to carry permanent armed guards as a precaution against robbery. ALLEGED POISONING. ' NOW York, January; 12. _ A nurse says that John Oschenk, of Wheeling,' Virginia, was given poisonec water by his v.-ife. DRUCE-PORTLAND. CASE. London, Jaimry .12.-. Miss Marguerite Druce denies tha announcement, published in the. "Mornng Post" last week, of the death of her mother, Mrs. Anna Mara Druce, the original claimant for tho Duke of Portland's estate. • NEW SOUTH WALES TIMBER SUPPLY. Sydney, January 13. The Assistant-Railway CommissioneC ■ advises that he is prohibiting the export of railway sleepers in view of tha rapid denudation of the forests, i TRAMWAY EMPLOYEES' HOURS, Melbourne, January 13. ' • The working hours of tramway., em* ployees in Melbourne have been ieduped from 54 to 48 weekly. BRISBANE STRIKE ENDS. Brisijans, January 13. After a period, of over twenty-two weeks tho ironmeulders' strike'has been settled, the men returning to work on an increase of a shilling a day, in place of the two, shillings demanded. SUEZ CANAL .CLEAR, , Fort Said, January 12. The Dutch steamer Sendoro, which grounded in tho Suez Canal, has been refloated, and tho canal lias been reopened for traffic.-